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Minor earthquake 2.82 mag, 19 km SSW of San Joaquin, California


Earthquake location 36.4588318S, -120.309166WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from San Joaquin in California. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:26:45 / 7:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 4.38 km, -120.309166° West, 36.4588318° North. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72916466. Unique identifier: nc72916466. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.38 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/10/17 / 2017-10-31 03:26:45 / October 31, 2017 @ 3:26 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Fresno (c. 494 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Clovis (c. 95 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Madera (c. 61 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Hanford (c. 54 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Lemoore (c. 24 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chowchilla, Sanger, Parlier (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km SSW of San Joaquin, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.309166° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4588318° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SSW of San Joaquin, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-31 03:26:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-31 03:28:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status automatic Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 122 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nc The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nc, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0823 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 186 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72916466 Id of event.
Event Code 72916466 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72916466, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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